Named after the gorgeous bit of coastline nestled in southwest Italy, and now built to enjoy every sun-kissed, cliched meter of it: welcome to the delectable new Ferrari Amalfi Spider.
Cool name, cool (literally) car. You’ll need only the basics: a 3.9-liter twin-turbo V8 nestled in the front and pushed as far back as possible, an eight-speed twin-clutch gearbox and then you + your partner/shopping/expensive cake in the middle, and drive at the back. It’s an Amalfi—which is a heavily revised Roma—without a roof.
Need more? There’s plenty more. Like a hearty 631hp on board courtesy of that V8. And crucially, there’s no roof. Well, technically there is, but if you’re naming your car after a coast famous for its sun, you’ll rarely have it closed. Just superglue it open and get a nice hat. A Ferrari-branded one if possible.
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It takes just 13.5sec to open (and close), at speeds of up to 60kph, and Ferrari said that when fully closed, this five-layer fabric roof offers soundproofing and insulation “comparable to that of a Ferrari retractable hard top.”
There’s no denying it looks quite lovely—especially opened up—if not as outright gorgeous as the outgoing Roma. Still, the Amalfi Spider was designed to make sure the Coupe’s proportions were kept as intact as possible, and that practicality was preserved.
So the roof’s just 220mm thick, which means 255 liters of luggage space when closed, and 172 liters with it stowed. All the better to enjoy that V8 soundtrack.
Otherwise it’s as per the hard top Amalfi: same brake-by-wire, active aero, a cockpit that—yay!—includes real physical buttons, and version 6.1 of Ferrari’s Side Slip Control sorcery. The same performance times, too: 0-100kph in 3.3sec, though top speed drops to ‘just’ 319kph. Naturally it’s heavier—1,556kg—which is 86kg more than the Coupe.
Would you welcome this into your garage, or the more powerful Aston Martin Vantage Roadster?
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NOTE: This article first appeared on TopGear.com. Minor edits have been made.
